Posted on 04/19/2020 7:12:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The sheeple have been conditioned to accept their overlords knowing better that quickly..... WOW
“ Bingo! This is still like a long snow day for some, but that won’t last.”
Yep. The bill will come due. It always does.
We’re all looking at a future when we’ll have to cut back on the $13/pint ice cream.
And that is your right to continue to isolate. I support it fully.
It is my right, however, to realize that when we went into lockdown we knew little about this virus. We now know more and we know who it affects.
We are finding out more and it appears that this was here form much longer than we were lead to believe. As testing increases the statistics are showing which patient groups are more vulnerable. We are also seeing that the death rate drop significantly.
We are finding out which treatments are most effective and which drugs show promise.
We have learned that the great ventilator shortage crisis was non-existent. We are also learning the ventilators night not be the best course of action.
We are finding out that the original reason for the lockdowns, namely, flattening the curve, has been achieved. That reason was to avoid flooding the hospitals. We know that hospitalization rates were much lower than expected.
We know that locking down and a total shutdown of our economy is replacing one risk of mass death with another. It is robbing Peter to pay Paul.
We also know that absolute power corrupts absolutely and that certain governors are being arbitrary and capricious in their restrictions.
We also know that the Constitution is being shredded.
We also know that this virus is being used to push a far left agenda and is being used to try to enshrine voter fraud.
Using lockdown to stop the virus was never the goal. Ensuring that there were NO deaths was never the goal. Instead it is the more goal as the posts were moved. It is impossible to achieve but those who want to use this virus to forward an agenda know that.
What pandemic or disease has ever been reduced to zero without a vaccine. Yet, we did not shut down the entire country for H1N1 until a
vaccine could be found.
Mitigation is what we were preached. Mitigation does not mean elimination.
I keep hearing that this is unprecedented and justifies suspension of the Constitution. Yet at the time our founding fathers were drafting the Constitution they were facing regular and mass outbreaks of small pox, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, lyme’s disease, dysentery, rickets, malaria and a whole host of other diseases.
By all means continue to self isolate if you think that is the best course. The rest of the economy needs to get back to work or the damage will be irreparable
My anecdotal experience is the same. Only my fellow right winger acquaintances are clamoring for reopening. My liberal friends are happy to stay home.
Ouchthatonehurt wrote: “I guess that more than 60% of Americans are not experiencing the economic fallout yet.”’
Seriously, who’s going to say they’re in favor of more deaths?
Everyone’s situation is different—and unfortunately we are _not_ all in this together.
What a lot of folks here don’t get is they really are in the minority on this topic.
Bad news—but that is the reality.
Here in CT we are supposedly under “lockdown”, but the governor has created a lot of loopholes (not well publicized in the media) that have minimized the impact for the majority of folks.
The devil is in the details—each state is different, each person’s situation is different.
The “open everything now” hysteria around here is totally un-persuasive.
Freepers need to do less yelling and screaming and finger-pointing and generate more constructive proposals that are win-win.
Agree.
Complete survey and methodology here:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6842659/200203-NBCWSJ-April-Poll-4-19-20-Release.pdf
Not when the suicide tate’s start to soar and lives are ruined by the financial blowback. There is a cost to shutting down both in life/health and in economic factors
Sheltering to flatten the curve for the benefit of the medical front line is one thing.
Becoming wards of the state led by Democrats who want to enslave everyone is another.
My brother-in-law and his wife combined are collecting around $7,000 a month from the federal government in Social Security on disability. On top of that they have their separate retirement incomes.
They pay to have groceries delivered, they order their food from any decent restaurant that is offering curbside service now. They live in a upper-crust retirement community isolated from the Hoi polloi. As you may have guessed they are solid Democrat voters. He at least understands this can’t go on indefinitely, she is a retired school teacher, Jewish woman from New York. Typical Democratic Socialist. Lots of formal education and damn little critical reasoning skills.
The concept that they could be standing in a food line with the rest of us great unwashed I believe is not occurring to them
Polls do a weighting average by demographics, so the influence of pensioners by age will be per their share of the population. Not sure about high risk. It may be that 60% of Americans are high risk (obesity, age, etc.) and this reflects that.
Masks are useless anyway. It does have one use though - it gets the sheeple to self identify
And let the liberals stay home. Like most liberals, they are all for anything, until it affects them personally. And then they scream the loudest against that thing they were just for.
“I will continue to self isolate. This crap is going to break out again if they stop the lock down as it has done in other countries.
People are being selfish to want out and it will take a toll.
Part of the difference though, is I am 70 and live on a few acres. I understand people going stir crazy cooped up in an apartment or condo.”
Different strokes for different folks. I’m 72...my self isolation days are over. I’m not going to spend what time I have left in fear. Good luck to you.
Yep. I’m looking at the financial gut punch coming to my business in mid-late July. Fine now, but it’s coming.
Well said. And it is not only here. This hysteria is sweeping the entire right wing blogosphere and is amplified by Fox News. Unfortunately, the POTUS seems to be taking cues from it, which is essentially a minority opinion.
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